March 2014

This week’s episode of Things Unseen will be slightly delayed. My good friends at Artistic Whispers Productions are coming down to the deadline for their production of the audiobook for Gail Carriger’s CRUDRAT, and they were in desperate need of extra hands this week to help with the editing. Since I myself am one of the actors on this project, and I want to see Dan, Kitty and Gail succeed on it, I volunteered to pitch in. This means that production of Things Unseen took a back seat this week as we worked on editing CRUDRAT instead.

The good news is that you shouldn’t have to wait for too long: I have a 3-day weekend because Monday is Cesar Chavez Day here in California. That means that I can spend the bulk of Sunday and Monday working on getting the podcast ready to go. My goal is for Chapter Two to drop by 12:00 AM Pacific Time on Monday night/Tuesday morning.

In the meantime, if you find yourself in the Bay Area this weekend, I hope you’ll come out and join us on Sunday for the launch party for Crudrat. From 3 to 5 PM. I’ll be taking a break from the editing room to appear with Dan, Kitty, Gail and some of the other voice actors at The Book Shop on B Street in Hayward. (I’ll bet you didn’t know we had THE book shop here in the East Bay.) Come on out, bring your tea cup, and let’s celebrate the completion of this exciting but very crazy-making project.

Twenty-five years after the disappearance of Project Lightpath, Hal Raines — the son of one of the lost explorers — joins a highly dubious expedition to the Rift Zone. Why are Lord Ezekiel and his friends so interested in the Rift? What do they expect to find there? And why do they want Hal to accompany them?

At long last, Metamor City returns! This episode takes us back to the year 1974 Cristos Reckoning, when the researchers of Project Lightpath entered a mysterious magic-filled jungle in the name of scientific exploration. What they found there was unlike anything they expected — and laid the foundation for events twenty-five years later, on the other side of the world…